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Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

By: Raymond B. Blake

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Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

By: Raymond B. Blake

Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post–Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime ministers worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation.

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0774869666

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The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®

18 Tales of Doom

By: Robert Reed,Jack London,Edgar Wallace,Raymond F. Jones,Lafcadio Hearn

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The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®

18 Tales of Doom

By: Robert Reed,Jack London,Edgar Wallace,Raymond F. Jones,Lafcadio Hearn

Everyone loves a good disaster story. Fire, famine, disease, war...the world as we know it might end in a million different ways. The Plague, Pestilence, and Apocalypse MEGAPACKTM explores some of the holocausts that might befall mankind, with a special emphasis on plagues (a personal favorite theme of the publisher). If this volume proves popular, we'll do additional volumes focusing on other apocalyptic events... Ice ages? Atomic war? The death of the sun? The possibilities are endless. Included in this volume: PALLBEARER, by Robert Reed PANDEMIC, by J. F. Bone WINGS OF THE BLACK DEATH, by Norvell Page THE MAN WHO LIVED, by Raymond F. O'Kelley THE UNPARALLELED INVASION, by Jack London THE 4TH PLAGUE, by Edgar Wallace THE GERM GROWERS, by Robert Potter THE ANIMALS SICK OF THE PLAGUE, by Jean de La Fontaine THOTH, by Joseph Shield Nicholson THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, by Edgar Allan Poe THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones THE SCARLET PLAGUE, by Jack London THE PLAGUE IN BERGAMO, by Jens Peter Jacobsen THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller THE LAST MAN, by Mary Shelley A LEGEND, by Lafcadio Hearn THE DUST OF DEATH, by Fred M. White THE COFFIN CURE, by Alan E. Nourse If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 180+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479402524

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God and War

American Civil Religion since 1945

By: Raymond Haberski, Jr.

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God and War

American Civil Religion since 1945

By: Raymond Haberski, Jr.

Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition like war. Raymond Haberski argues that since 1945 the common moral assumptions expressed in an American civil religion have become increasingly defined by the nation's experience with war. God and War traces how three great postwar “trials”—the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror—have revealed the promise and perils of an American civil religion. Throughout the Cold War, Americans combined faith in God and faith in the nation to struggle against not only communism but their own internal demons. The Vietnam War tested whether America remained a nation "under God," inspiring, somewhat ironically, an awakening among a group of religious, intellectual and political leaders to save the nation's soul. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 behind us and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, Americans might now explore whether civil religion can exist apart from the power of war to affirm the value of the nation to its people and the world.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553180

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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States

By: Henry J. Raymond,Frank B. Carpenter

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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States

By: Henry J. Raymond,Frank B. Carpenter

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death.

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3752590378

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1,999 Facts about Blacks

A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement

By: Raymond M. Corbin

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1,999 Facts about Blacks

A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement

By: Raymond M. Corbin

This bestselling book tells you everything you want to know about black achievement. From the arts to sports, from science to politics, all of the facts are at your fingertips. Compact yet comprehensive, this reference book celebrates the contributions of black men and women which are sometimes overlooked in conventional histories. The question-and-answer format makes this book ideal for discussion, teaching, or simply self-education.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1568330812

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Single nature’s double name

The collectedness of the conflicting in British and American romanticism

By: Raymond Benoit

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Single nature’s double name

The collectedness of the conflicting in British and American romanticism

By: Raymond Benoit

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111341364

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Jesus or Nietzsche

How Should We Live Our Lives?

By: Raymond Angelo Belliotti

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Jesus or Nietzsche

How Should We Live Our Lives?

By: Raymond Angelo Belliotti

This book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus’s moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing versions of the historical Jesus. The work also contrast Jesus’ understanding of the best way to lead our lives with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both Jesus and Nietzsche were self-consciously moral revolutionaries. Jesus refashioned the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convinced was the divine will. Nietzsche aspired to transvalue the dominant values of his time —which themselves were influenced greatly by Christianity— in service of what he took to be a higher vision. The interplay of these radical versions of the good human life, seasoned with critical commentary emerging from modern findings in the sciences and humanities, opens possibilities and lines of inquiry that can inform our choices in answering that enduring, paramount question, “How should we live our lives?”

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Rodopi

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9401209251

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Public Administration in Theory and Practice

By: Raymond W Cox III,Susan Buck,Betty Morgan

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Public Administration in Theory and Practice

By: Raymond W Cox III,Susan Buck,Betty Morgan

Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspective, and provides students with an understanding of the practice of public administration. Combining historical, contextual and theoretical perspectives, this text give students a truly comprehensive overview of the discipline and focuses on the practical implications of public administration theory. Features Normative perspective focuses on the practice of public administration and helps students understand what public administrators do. Historical, contextual and theoretical perspectives provide comprehensive coverage of the subject matter. A thematic overview reinforces the multiple conceptual frameworks or lens through which we see public administration. Students will learn to think through to practical and realistic solutions that acknowledge an historic precedence and theory. Emphasis on performance measures and assessments

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Routledge

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1317344960

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Effective Discipline In The Home And School

By: Genevieve Painter,Raymond J. Corsini

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Effective Discipline In The Home And School

By: Genevieve Painter,Raymond J. Corsini

This book assists parents, teachers, and counselors in training children so that home and school will be happy and efficient, organized but pleasant -- with adults satisfied with their children and children growing up to be respectful, responsible, and resourceful. It provides solutions and emphasizes practicality.

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131775722X

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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 4

1895-98. Assistant Editors, Stuart B. Kaufman, Barbara S. Kraft, and Raymond W. Smock

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R. Harlan,Raymond W Smock

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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 4

1895-98. Assistant Editors, Stuart B. Kaufman, Barbara S. Kraft, and Raymond W. Smock

By: Booker T Washington,Louis R. Harlan,Raymond W Smock

The University of Illinois Press offers online access to "The Booker T. Washington Papers," a 14-volume set published by the press. Users can search the papers, view images, and purchase the print version of the volumes. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African-American educator who was born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia.

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0252005295

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9780252005299

An Introduction to the New Testament

By: Raymond E. Brown

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An Introduction to the New Testament

By: Raymond E. Brown

From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the New Testament with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic content and issues of the New Testament. While a wealth of information is contained in these pages, the work’s most impressive features are the basic summaries of each book, a historical overview of the ancient Greco-Roman world, discussions of key theological issues, and the rich supplementary materials, such as illustrative tables, maps, bibliographies, and appendixes. Using this basic data, Brown answers questions raised by today’s readers, relates the New Testament to our modern world, and responds to controversial issues, such as those raised by the Jesus Seminar. Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable Introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown's An Introduction to the New Testament is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible. Universally acknowledged as the dean of New Testament scholarship, Father Brown is a master of his discipline at the pinnacle of his career. Who else could cover the entire scope of the New Testament with such ease and clarity? This gifted communicator conveys the heartfelt concern of a beloved teacher for his students, as he walks the reader through the basic content and issues of the New Testament. Those opening to the New Testament for the first time and those seeking deeper insights could not ask for more in a primer to the Christian Bible.

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0300174586

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Conflict and Compromise

Post-Confederation Canada

By: Raymond B. Blake,Jeffrey Keshen,Norman J. Knowles,Barbara J. Messamore

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Conflict and Compromise

Post-Confederation Canada

By: Raymond B. Blake,Jeffrey Keshen,Norman J. Knowles,Barbara J. Messamore

Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been a continual process of negotiation and a need for compromise which has enabled Canada to develop into arguably one of the most successful and pluralistic countries in the world. The authors have drawn from all genres characterizing the present state of Canadian historiography, including social, military, cultural, political, and economic approaches. In doing so their aim is to challenge readers to engage with debates and interpretations about the past rather than simply to study for an exam. The second volume begins with the nation-building project that got underway in 1864 and ends in the present. The book is illustrated with over 60 images, maps, and figures, all designed to support its mission to provide intellectual curiosity.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442635576

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Introduction to the New Testament Christology

By: Raymond E. Brown

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Introduction to the New Testament Christology

By: Raymond E. Brown

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A&C Black

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0826471900

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Atheism as a Positive Social Force

By: Raymond W. Converse

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Atheism as a Positive Social Force

By: Raymond W. Converse

Recent disasters have raised new questions concerning the role of religion in society. Converse does not oppose religion per se; he outlines the growth of religion from a modern historical perspective and shows how atheism can be applied as a positive alt.

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Algora Publishing

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The Spirit Book

The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication

By: Raymond Buckland

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The Spirit Book

The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication

By: Raymond Buckland

Never say die! Can the living communicate with the dead? Many believe that spirits are constantly about us and that it is possible, through a variety of means, to speak to them and to have them speak to us. The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication looks at these methods of communication, their history, and the personalities involved throughout the past three hundred years of this eternal quest. The fascinating history of Spiritualism is coaxed into the material realm as the object of this perceptive and sweeping overview by that legendary author of the occult and supernatural, Raymond Buckland. Drawing on decades of research, writing, and transcendence, he describes sundry methods of channeling, events associated with Spiritualism, including séances and exorcism, organizations focused on clairvoyance, and a colorful host of mortals—famous and infamous—who delved into Spiritualism. Nostradamus, Helena Blavatsky, and Edgar Cayce receive their due, as well as Joan of Arc, William Blake, Susan B. Anthony, Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mahatma Gandhi, Harry Houdini, and Mae West (look up and see her sometime). The Spirit Book explores Qabbalah, Sibyls, Fairies, Poltergeists; phenomena such as intuition and karma; objects useful in the attempt to cross the divide, including tarot cards, flower reading, and runes; and related practices such as Shamanism, transfiguration, meditation, and mesmerism. This comprehensive reference also reports on investigations of contemporary manifestations, including electronic voice phenomena and spirit appearances on TV screens, plus channeling, fraud, psychic research, and possession. Containing more than 500 entries and 100 illustrations, this fun, fact-filled tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.

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Visible Ink Press

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1578592895

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Kingdom of Snow

Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia

By: Raymond Van Dam

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Kingdom of Snow

Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia

By: Raymond Van Dam

Kingdom of Snow investigates the impact of Roman rule in Cappadocia and the fate of classical Greek culture in an increasingly Christian society.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812236815

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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Raymond D. Irwin

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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Raymond D. Irwin

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in professional literature, and the number of OCLC member libraries holding the work. In 31 thematic sections, the book covers such topics as: exploration and colonialization, Native Americans, the American Revolutionary War, the Constitution, race and slavery, gender, religion.

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0313072892

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9780313072895

Conditional Reasoning

The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of "if"

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

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Conditional Reasoning

The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of "if"

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

This book reviews the work of prominent psychologists and philosophers on conditional reasoning. It provides empirical research on how people deal with conditional arguments and examines how conditional statements are used and interpreted in everyday communication. It also includes philosophical and theoretical treatments of the mental processes that support conditional reasoning, making it an ideal resource for students, teachers, and researchers with a focus in cognition across disciplines.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190202998

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Miracles

By: Charles Raymond Dillon

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Miracles

By: Charles Raymond Dillon

Most of the stories in this book are outside the scope of our everyday experience, many unbelievable, yet many have been validated by observers as being authentic. There are stories of weeping and mobile statues, incorruptible flesh of the dead, and spontaneous combustion of human bodies. Other stories concern ecstasy, levitation, visions, healing, and other mysterious events. The concept of miracles have been attacked by rationalist philosophers who argue that they would be a violation of the common course of nature, thus the events could not happen. Saint Augustine answered such critics by defining miracles as being events that are unknown in nature, not as something opposed to it. This book contains a collection of wondrous events that have been reported at have occurred at different times, in diverse places, and among all peoples of the world. These wonderful events may be called miracles, frauds, coincidences, or what ever you may choose. Many have been investigated and determined to have been fraud. The intent is to present the information, and to let you decide if they are real miracles or not.

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iUniverse

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0595141161

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These Men Have Seen Hard Service

The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War

By: Raymond J. Herek

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These Men Have Seen Hard Service

The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War

By: Raymond J. Herek

These Men Have Seen Hard Service recounts the fascinating history of one outstanding Michigan regiment during the Civil War. A compelling political, social, ethnic, and military drama, this book examines the lives of the 1300 men of the First Michigan Sharpshooters for the first time, beginning with the regiment's inception and extending through post-war activities until the death of the last rifleman in 1946. Beyond presenting numerous anecdotes about the men and officers and their contributions during the war, Raymond Herek provides insight into the medical community of the time, the draft, other commands in the same division, the politics endemic in raising a regiment, and Michigan's Native American contingent. The extensive appendices will be of particular use to genealogists, Civil War enthusiasts, and historians, because they list the men in the regiment, and also battle and camp casualties.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814326722

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9780814326725

The Literature of Ancient Egypt

An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry

By: Raymond Oliver Faulkner

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The Literature of Ancient Egypt

An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry

By: Raymond Oliver Faulkner

Presents annotated translations of papyrus writings and tomb inscriptions from the middle and late periods of ancient Egypt.

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Yale University Press

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0300099207

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9780300099201

Three More Mondays

In Search of Hope and Healing A to Z

By: Raymond Stevens MD

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Three More Mondays

In Search of Hope and Healing A to Z

By: Raymond Stevens MD

Three More Mondays is more than a time check about life and death. It's about us, you and me. Together, we will explore, from the ancient time of Hippocrates to the present age, this ongoing saga of medical knowledge from twenty-six human maladies, A to Z, that I have witnessed, diagnosed or treated as a physician. As we embark on this intimate medical odyssey, the fragile but resilient human spirit is visibly exposed in the context of illness by the trials, tribulations and triumphs of my patients. Hopefully, this book will enlighten not only fledgling medical students, interns and residents of what the practice and art of medicine once was but sadly, what it is no longer, a personal doctor/patient relationship. For the general public, they may get a glimpse of themselves or of their loved ones in similar medical situations addressed in this book and, perhaps, they may come away with a deeper awareness that illness is not just experienced alone but shared as each one of us travels on our own individual medical journey in search of hope and healing.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1644718537

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9781644718537

Implementing Pastoral Care in Schools

By: Jeanette Raymond

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Implementing Pastoral Care in Schools

By: Jeanette Raymond

All schoolteachers are involved in pastoral care, either in their roles as form teachers or year tutors or more generally in their everyday contact with children. Pastoral care is a wide ranging area which involves amongst other things the building in children of social skills and a positive self-image in order to help them be well-motivated contributors to school life and to wider society. It also involves helping children cope with the stress of everyday school life, including examinations; familiarising them with school organisation; and helping children who have specific behaviour problems or personal crises. The book, originally published in 1985, surveys the whole field of pastoral care in schools at the time. It discusses the aims, methods and implementation of a successful pastoral care system. It reviews relevant theories and research work but throughout the emphasis is on practical matters, on helping teachers work out intelligently for themselves how they might improve their performance in this field.

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042989323X

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Arthur Ashe

A Life

By: Raymond Arsenault

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Arthur Ashe

A Life

By: Raymond Arsenault

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A “thoroughly captivating biography” (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of eleven, Arthur Ashe was one of the state’s most talented black tennis players. He became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, and two years later he won the NCAA singles championship. In 1968, he rose to a number one national ranking. Turning professional in 1969, he soon became one of the world’s most successful tennis stars, winning the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1975. After retiring in 1980, he served four years as the US Davis Cup captain and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. In this “deep, detailed, thoughtful chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review), Raymond Arsenault chronicles Ashe’s rise to stardom on the court. But much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity. In the 1970s and 1980s, Ashe gained renown as an advocate for sportsmanship, education, racial equality, and the elimination of apartheid in South Africa. But from 1979 on, he was forced to deal with a serious heart condition that led to multiple surgeries and blood transfusions, one of which left him HIV-positive. After devoting the last ten months of his life to AIDS activism, Ashe died in February 1993 at the age of forty-nine, leaving an inspiring legacy of dignity, integrity, and active citizenship. Based on prodigious research, including more than one hundred interviews, Arthur Ashe puts Ashe in the context of both his time and the long struggle of African-American athletes seeking equal opportunity and respect, and “will serve as the standard work on Ashe for some time” (Library Journal, starred review).

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Simon & Schuster

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1439189056

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On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)

By: Raymond Aaron Younis

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On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)

By: Raymond Aaron Younis

This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), in relation to some of the diverse religions of the world and the rich and multifarious traditions of the sacred in many cultures and times, in the context of ontology (broadly, the philosophical study or investigation of being). It provides incisive critical analyses and evaluations of many important contributions to our understanding of the sacred, and the holy, especially in relation to the world's religions, religious experience, religious insight or knowledge, metaphysics, mythology and mysticism. A number of important theories and explanations are also critically analyzed and evaluated, including the numinous theory of the sacred and the holy (Otto), the psychodynamic theory (Freud), the sociological theory (Durkheim), empirical theories (Russell and Ayer), the ontological question (Heidegger) and the hierophantic theory (Eliade)—among others. The book concludes with a number of reflections on the ontology of the sacred (and the profane) in relation to philosophy and science, that will open up new pathways of thinking, reflection and investigation in the 21st century.

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149857369X

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