Young Regina was only a child when Adolph Hitlers armies invaded her hometown, Kiwerece, Poland, ravaging the beautiful countryside and destroying nearly everything that was dear to her. Her anguish is captured in this memoir that traces her journey through the heartaches of war. But the experiences that tarnish her innocencesqualid labor camps and relentless hungerdeepen her compassion and awaken her budding talent and intuition. Regina evolves into a woman of strength and heightened self awareness. Thats Not a Scar; Thats a Beauty Mark is filled with spiritual messages and life lessons. Its a treatise to the supernatural power of faith and forgiveness. The mystical and historical perspectives of this book make it one of a kind. The author delivers her personal story with dramatic flairall the while adding words of advice and encouragement for others. The reader will learn and be inspired. Herbert R. Metoyer, Jr., author, Small Fires in the Sun
A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues the dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway. The result is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent call to action that questions why the mainstream press failed to challenge the Bush administrationâs arguments for an invasion of Iraq or to illuminate administration policies underlying the Abu Ghraib controversy. Drawing on revealing interviews with Washington insiders and analysis of content from major news outlets, the authors illustrate the mediaâs unilateral surrender to White House spin whenever oppositional voices elsewhere in government fall silent. Contrasting these grave failures with the refreshingly critical reporting on Hurricane Katrinaâa rare event that caught officials off guard, enabling journalists to enter a no-spin zoneâWhen the Press Fails concludes by proposing new practices to reduce reportersâ dependence on power. âThe hand-in-glove relationship of the U.S. media with the White House is mercilessly exposed in this determined and disheartening study that repeatedly reveals how the press has toed the official line at those moments when its independence was most needed.ââGeorge Pendle, Financial Times âBennett, Lawrence, and Livingston are indisputably right about the news mediaâs dereliction in covering the administrationâs campaign to take the nation to war against Iraq.ââDon Wycliff, Chicago Tribune â[This] analysis of the weaknesses of Washington journalism deserves close attention.ââRussell Baker, New York Review of Books
This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. âWhereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern rulers strove to secure the succession to their thrones and preserve family heritage. Regardless of status, infertility could have drastic consequences, above all for women, and lead to social discrimination, expulsion, and divorce. Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of âfertilityâ as an identity category from the perspective of new approaches in gender and intersectionality research. Shedding light on how premodern views have shaped understandings our own time, this book is highly relevant interest to students and scholars interested in discourses around infertility across history.
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